'ைக ெபா த ெம ெபா க ' 'Educa on is the true wealth,

-ெகா ைற ேவ த , ஔைவயா . be er than material wealth'

‐Konrai Venthan, Avvaiyar

RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES

January ­ March, 2021 NEWSLETTER Volume 02 Issue 03

VISION
To become a Department of Excellence in Mathematical education, Physical
Sciences and Research and Development
And
Setting the standards of Excellence in Communication skills and preparing the
learners to meet the challenging trends in the professional career.

MISSION
The Department is Committed
• To impart high quality education in Applied Mathematics and Physical
Sciences at various levels of programmes in engineering and technology.
• To build confidence in engineering students in using mathematical and
scientific tools for designing industrial products and systems in a better,
faster and effective way.
• To improve the Communication Skills of engineering students and make
them suitable for employment.
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EDITOR'S MESSAGE

Greetings,

I trust this issue of our Department's newsletter, HumSci 360o, finds you in good vigour.

We are once again forced to switch to online teaching mode due to the second wave of the pandemic. It
shows that our precautions and safety protocols should be more intensive. I wish to insist the same to
everyone. Our faculty members are now equipped well, in both skills and tools, to continue their teaching
and other academic and research related activities without any compromise on quality. I therefore am very
much pleased to express my appreciations to them.

We are always grateful to the Management and the Principal for their constant motivation and support
which helps us to reach our fullest potential.

Dr. M. Muthusamy
Professor & Head of the Department

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
• Dr. S. Mohandoss, Dr. S. Sureshkumar, and Mrs. L. Renuka published a paper titled "A Detailed Study
on Electrochemical Performance and Cell Viability of Nano­YSZ­coated 316L SS Sample for Dental
Applications" in the International journal "Journal of Materials Research", Volume 35, Issue 21.

• Dr. G. Saravana Kumar et al. published a paper titled "Development of Organic Crystalline Nature
Guanidinium Nitrate (GuN): Structural, Frontier Molecular Orbital, Optical, Thermal, Mechanical,
Theoretical and Experimental SHG and Z­scan Properties for NLO Device Uses" in the International
journal "Journal of Materials Science : Materials in Electronics", Volume 32, Issue 4.

• Dr. K. Seethalakshmi et al. published a paper titled "Nanohydroxyapatite­doped Polycaprolactone ­Based

Nanoscaffolds as a Viable Drug Delivery Agent in Bone Tissue Engineering" in the International journal
"Journal of Materials Research", Volume 36, Issue 2.

• Dr. R. Manonmani published a paper titled "Novel Nano Triphasic Bioceramic Composite Coating on
316l Ss by Electrophoretic Deposition Process for Enhanced Corrosion Resistance and Cell Proliferation"
in the International journal "Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society", Volume 57, Issue 1.

• Dr. S. Sureshkumar et al. published a paper titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Activated Carbon/
ZnO Nanocomposite from Water Hyacinth for Heavy Metal Adsorption and its Antimicrobial Activity" in
the International journal "Asian Journal Chemistry", Volume 33, Issue 3.

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• Dr. G. Saravana Kumar and Mr. K. Vijayanarasimhan published a paper titled "Quantum Chemical
Analysis, Biological Activity and ADME Properties of N,N՛ ­ Diphenylguanidinium Hydrogen (+) –L­
Tartrate Monohydrate" in the International journal "International Journal of Chemtech Research", Volume
14, Issue 1.

PAPER PRESENTED

• Dr. P. Ragukumar participated and presented a paper titled "Generation of Anti­magic Graphs from
Binary Graph Products" in the "International Conference on Mathematical Modelling and Computational
Intelligence Techniques (ICMMCIT­2021)" from 10.02.2021 to 12.02.2021, organized by Hybrid ­
Gandhigram Rural University and sponsored by CSIR, DST­SERB.

• Dr. P. Ragukumar, Mrs. R. Nathiya, Mrs. C. Renuga, and Mr. R. Siluvai Dasan participated and presented
a paper titled "Edge Irregularity Strength of Binomial Trees" in the "International Conference on
Mathematical Modelling and Computational Intelligence Techniques (ICMMCIT­2021)" from 10.02.2021
to 12.02.2021, organized by Hybrid ­ Gandhigram Rural University and sponsored by CSIR, DST­SERB.

• Mr. M. Anand Raj participated and presented a paper titled "Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Study to Identify the Electrode Kinetics of NiCoCu Alloy Prepared by Pulsed Electrodeposition Method"
in the "6th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" on February 01.03.2021,
organized by SRM Institute of Science and Technology.

CONFERENCE SESSION CHAIRED

• Dr. B. Sivakumar acted as a Session Chair in the "International Conference on Applied Mathematics &
Civil Structures (ICAMCS 2021)" organized by the Department of Mathematics and Department of Civil
Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering conducted during 12.02.2021 to
13.02.2021.

STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS

• Mr. Joshua David, Mr. M. Sidharthan, and Mr. M. Tharun, students from I year B.E. Computer Science
and Engineering, have participated in the event Top Coders 21 organized by E­Box Colleges in association
with Virtusa and TIE, and have won the I place with a cash award of Rs. 6000.

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ARTICLE: PROFESSION AND PROFESSIONALS

‘Teachers of higher education institutions are regarded as professionals’. They have a special
obligation in their minds towards the well­being of this society. The faculty members should contemplate
what the society anticipates from them as professionals. Every faculty member has to internalize what
makes their profession distinctive compared to other occupations.

Bayles (1989) explicates the term ‘profession’ as ‘those forms of work, which involves advanced
expertise, self­regulation and concerted service to the public welfare’.

From this explication it is obvious that:

i. Professionals deal with vast and complex knowledge
ii. Professionals continue to create new knowledge in their profession
iii. Professionals deal with high­stake activities
iv. Professionals work based on trust with clients
v. Professionals are self­regulating

In case you need to decide whether your occupation may be termed as a profession or not, you
must check the nearness of these five fundamental characteristics. Indeed, on the off chance that one of the
five characteristics is lost, at that point the occupation cannot be named as a profession. The culmination of
this recommendation is that, in case the so­called ‘professionals’ do not observe these five characteristics
in their profession, they no more stay as genuine professionals.

‘A faculty member of an higher education institute should make efforts to create new knowledge in
his/her field of specialization (by reading journals/attending conferences and so on) and contribute to the
creation of new knowledge by engaging in research or guiding student’s research, teaching, etc...'

Being a professional, we should constantly try to identify which one of the five fundamental
characteristics is missing or diminishing in us and work to address the same.

Dr. G. Saravana Kumar

Assistant Professor of Physics

Reference:
Bayles M.D., “Professional Ethics”, Belmont, (Calif.) : Wadsworth, 1989.

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Editorial Team
Editor­in­chief:
Dr. M. Muthusamy, Professor & Head

Executive Editor:
Mr. K. Vijayanarasimhan, Asst. Prof. (SS) ­ Physics

Faculty & Student Coordinators:

Ms. R. Krithika, Asst. Prof. (SG) ­ Mathematics Ms. R. Bhavani, Asst. Prof. (SS) ­ Physics

Mr. Hastin Fernandez, Asst. Prof. (SS) ­ English Ms. S. Janaki, Asst. Prof. (SS) ­ Chemistry

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